Rogers Communications Inc. says it has turned on cellular service in a small portion of the remaining subway tunnels where riders have been eagerly waiting to be able to connect.
The company, which has been working to expand wireless service to the remaining 36 kilometres of unconnected tunnels since last May, announced over the weekend that 5G service is now available between Kipling and Islington, and Keele and Dundas West stations.
For Rogers, the project began two years ago when it acquired the cellular network in the subway system from BAI Canada, vowing to upgrade existing infrastructure—which only Freedom Mobile customers had access to since 2015—and extend it across the subway map….